What will 2015 hold for Central Europe?
The Visegrad Four (V4) countries are coming off a difficult last year in which divisions over their differing attitudes towards Russia and the sanctions policy were made public for all to see. These divisions have created serious concerns about the unity of the region and its reliability in carrying out EU and NATO policies. The year 2015 will therefore be considered a do-over. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to a complicated Budapest earlier this week, followed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit on 17 February, represent the first steps of this pivotal year for V4 countries, which have a lot to prove to each other and to their European partners.
Read more in the article published on 5 February 2015 by the Visegrad Insight.
About the author: Michal Kořan is the Deputy Director of the Institute of International Relations and among his areas of interest are Central European states in the context of European and global politics or the Visegrad group cooperation.
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